A man carried an imitation handgun through a crowded shopping street sparking a huge armed police response. Jack Richards, 24, left onlookers "petrified" after brandishing the weapon in the middle of Queen Street in Cardiff city centre.
Richards, of Caerau Lane in Ely, was arrested after a "public order incident" in the capital on Monday, February 7, this year. Armed police attended the scene outside Superdrug at around 2.15pm with an eyewitness describing seeing eight police vehicles and around 20 officers on the street at the time of the incident. You can read more about that here.
Photos from the scene showed police making arrests in front of passing shoppers with Richards seen sitting on the ground in handcuffs outside the Superdrug store. A black and blue imitation BB handgun was also pictured discarded in the middle of the street with police standing around it.
